orphan dirs and files with --delete
Eric Whiting
ewhiting at amis.com
Tue Mar 23 03:24:27 GMT 2004
I still get the same error with --force --delete.
There needs to be a chmod on dir before the files and dir can be deleted.
eric
Tim Conway wrote:
>
> --force force deletion of directories even if
> not empty
>
> SunOS 5.8 Last change: 26 Jan 2003 7
>
> User Commands rsync(1)
>
> That should do it.
>
> Tim Conway
> Unix System Administration
> Contractor - IBM Global Services
> desk:3032734776
> conway at us.ibm.com
>
> rsync (2.5.[67]) --delete fails on dirs with the w bit cleared. (example
> below)
> Rsync will sync a dir with w bit clear, but will not remove it with
> --delete.
>
> This is not a big problem, but it will create situations where there are
> 'orphaned' files.
>
> Has anyone else had this problem?
>
> It looks like a change would be needed in robust_unlink (util.c). This
> function
> would have to do a chmod on dirs that are locked down before it does the
> unlink.
> (syncing as user root doesn't have this problem)
>
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